Professionalization of Public Procurement Jorge

Transcript:Professionalization of Public Procurement Jorge:
Professionalization of Public Procurement Jorge Claro President & CEO INPRI INGP XII Annual Conference Montego Bay - November, 2016 Contents of the presentation Why professionalize procurement? What is INPRI? INPRI Jamaica The Training and certification programme Results of the programme Congratulations to Jamaica 2 Why professionalize procurement? Most important roles of a government include the control and management of public resources Public Sector Procurement (PSP) and the integrity of financial management systems fundamentally impact upon the level of trust that citizens have in the government 3 Why professionalize procurement? Modern governments are well aware that these core public finance activities combine to determine The ability to attract and retain foreign investment The cost of borrowing competitiveness 4 Why professionalize procurement? Governments have recognized and acted on the criticality of: transparent legal frameworks for PSP professionally staffed institutional frameworks with clearly defined roles and responsibilities strong accountability frameworks that are enforced in practice 5 Why professionalize procurement? PSP policies and strategies that: support national growth and development agendas, and are grounded in the fundamental principles of efficiency, effectiveness, economy, competition, fair treatment and transparency, and the implementation and effective operation of independent monitoring and oversight of governmental actions in the PSP framework 6 Why professionalize procurement? The foregoing is well understood and widely accepted best practice in PSP It is important to recognize that PSP policy making and activities do not occur in a vacuum Many regional challenges in PSP come about as result of smaller size, lower levels of development and unique vulnerabilities 7 Why professionalize procurement? Development assistance agencies tend to group countries into regions While we understand the rationale, perhaps this is not the best way to deal with particular country-specific issues, particularly in PSP A perfect example is the LAC region. While many member countries share similar characteristics, economic and otherwise, they are very diverse States 8 Why professionalize procurement? Typical differences include mainly: commodity exporters e.g., Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago agriculture based e.g., Belize service based, e.g., The Bahamas financial and tourism services While others are well on the way to knowledge-based transformations – like Chile 9 Why professionalize procurement? These countries all face similar challenges although in varying degrees such as: internal and external debt burdens low growth limited elasticity to cushion and recover from internal and external shocks vulnerability to natural events Earthquakes Hurricanes 10 Why professionalize procurement? Further, these States are highly